presentations

Selected Presentations

2008

“Economic Security and Global Financial Markets: Balancing Competition and Regulation,” U.S.

Treasury Department-Director of National Intelligence-Private Sector Workshop on the National Security

Dimensions of the International Banking and Financial Sector, Washington, D.C., March 20, 2008.

“Competition in the Financial Sector: Challenges for Regulation,” G-20 Workshop on Competition in the Financial Sector, Bali, Indonesia, February 15-17, 2008.

2007

“Economic Impacts of Global Terrorism: From Munich to Bali,” Conference on Emerging Research Frontiers in International Business Conflict, Security and Political Risk: International Business in a Challenging Environment, Miami, Florida, November 28-December 1, 2007.

“Implications and Risks of China’s New Investment Policy,” Conference on China’s Evolving Global Investment Policy: Outlook and Risks, sponsored by the Mitre Corporation, Washington, DC, November 14, 2007.

“China’s Economic Competitiveness and Implications for the U.S. Economy,” Global Security Seminar Dinner, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, November 7, 2007.

“New Measures of Bank Regulation and Supervision”, Workshop on Measuring Bank Regulation and Supervision, World Bank, Washington, DC, October 26, 2007.

“New Measures of Financial Regulation,” Conference on Political Economic Indicators and International Economic Analysis, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, October 13, 2007.

“Hedge Funds: A Global Perspective on Strategies and Risks,” Conference and Joint Meeting of Shadow Financial Regulatory Committees, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7-10, 2007.

“Corruption in Bank Lending to Firms: Do Competition and Information Sharing Matter?” University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, August 22, 2007.

“Competition, Information, and Corruption in Bank Lending,” The 2007 Summer Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy, School of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, June 1, 2007.

“Bank Regulation Is Changing: But for Better or Worse?” University of Hong Kong and Jinan University Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China, June, 2007.

Panelist for “Beyond Big: Measuring China’s Markets” and Moderator for “Global Integration of Capital Markets: Challenges and Opportunities,” Milken Institute Global Conference 2007, Los Angeles, California, April 23-25, 2007.

"China's Changing Financial System: Can It Catch up with, or Even Drive Growth?" (with Gerard Caprio), China-A Two Way Street, A Forum on China's Economic Growth and Opportunities for Indiana, Indiana State University, Indianapolis, IN, January 24-25, 2007.

2006

"A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Bank Risk-Shifting Behavior," (with Mark Bertus, Jiang Hai and Triphon Phumivasana), All China Economics International Conference, Hong Kong, December 18-20, 2006.

"Global Banking and Financial Markets" and "Global Perspectives on Banking," Young Leaders Banking Program, Riverside, California, December 10-16, 2006.

"Regulatory and Market Forces in Controlling Bank Risk-taking: A Cross-Country Analysis, " (with Apanard Angkinand, Triphon Phumivasana, and Glas Wihlborg), 2006 AIB Southeast Asia Regional Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, December 7-9, 2006.

"Reassessing Current Approaches to Banking Supervision," New Approaches to Banking Supervision, A Tanaka Business School Conference, Imperial College, London University and U.K. Financial Services Administration, London, November 3, 2006.

"Reassessing the Rationale and Practice of Bank Regulation and Supervision," Seminar on Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., October 23-27, 2006.

"External Governance and Bank Performance: Across-Country Analysis, " (with Mark Bertus, Valentina Hartarska, Jiang Hai and Triphon Phumivasana), Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 11-14, 2006.

"What Do We Know about the Performance and Risk of Hedge Funds?" (with Triphon Phumivasana, Tong Li and Glenn Yago), Intenational Financial Instability Cross –Border Banking & National Regulation, Chicago, Illinois, October 5-6, 2006.

"The Design and Governance of Bank Supervision," (with Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Ross Levine), 2006 Riksband Conference on the Governance of Central Banks, Stockholm, Sweden, August 31- September 1, 2006.

"Foreign Banking: Do Countries' WTO Commitments Match Actual Practices?" (with Juan Marchetti and Dan Nolle), Asia-Pacific Economic Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, July 29-30, 2006.

"Barriers to Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets: Analysis and Recommendations, " (with Glenn Yago and Betsy Zeidman), Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Kaufman Foundation, Kansas City, April 2006.

"A Framwork for Assessing China's Vulnerability to Financial Disruption," (with Glenn Yago), Assessing China's Financial Vulnerability Workshop, A Conference Sponsored by the Office of Asia Pacific and Latin American Analysis, March 10, 2006.

"Economic Impacts of Global Terrorism: From Munich to Bali," (with Tong Li, Donald McCarthy, Triphon Phumiwasana and Glenn Yago), American Economics Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, January 8, 2006.

2005

"A Cross-Country Analysis of Bank Performance: The Role of External Governance," (with Daniel Gropper, Valentina Hartarska, Daniel E. Nolle, and Triphon Phumiwasana), The 18^th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 14, 15 and 16, 2005.

"Rethinking Bank Regulation: What Works Best and Why Do Countries Choose to Regulate the Way They Do?" Economics Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 16, 2005.

"Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern," (with Gerard Caprio, Jr., and Ross Levine), Milken Institute, Santa Monica, California, December 8, 2005.

"Harmonization of Regulation and Supervision among EU Countries," (with Tong Li, and Ed Phumiwasana), Claremont McKenna College, CA, November 18, 2005.

"Stumbling Blocks to Entrepreneurship in Low- and Moderate-Income Communities" (with Glenn Yago and Betsy Zeidman), Conference on Entrepreneurship in Low- and Moderate-Incom Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, November 3, 2005.

"Rethinking Bank Regulation," (with Gerard Caprio, Jr., Ross Levine), Bank of England and Bank of Slovenia Conference. Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 28, 2005.

"Rethinking Bank Regulation," Ministry of Finance, Beijing, China, May 25, 26 and 27 2005.

"Rethinking the Way Countries Regulate Banks," Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, May 26, 2005.

"Investing in China's Under-performing Assets: Opportunity or Peril?" moderator, Milken Institute Global Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 18-20, 2005.

"Rethinking Bank Regulation and Supervision: Till Angels Govern," with Gerard Caprio, Jr., and Ross Levine , Financial Economics Seminar Series, World Bank, Washington, DC, January 24, 2005.

"Rethinking Bank Regulation and Supervision: Till Angels Govern,"( with Gerard Caprio, and Ross Levine), Financial Economics Seminar Series, World Bank, Washington, DC, January 24, 2005.

"The Savings and Loan Crisis: Lessons from a Regulatory Failure," (with Glenn Yago), Milken Institute, Santa Monica, California, January 6, 2005.

2004

"Financial Systems and Economic Development Opportunities and Challenges for China," Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 7, 2004.

"Financial Systems and Economic Development Opportunities and Challenges for China," Renmin University of China,

Beijing, China, December 6, 2004.

"A New Global Database: How Are Banks Regulated and Supervised Around the World?" Claremont Economics Seminar, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, November 10, 2004.

"External Governance and Bank Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis," (with Daniel E. Nolle, Valentina Hartarska, and Ed Phumiwasana), Dolibois Seminar Series, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October 25, 2004.

"Asian Financial Cooperation for Economic Prosperity," the 12th Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Business, Bangkok, Thailand, August 10-11, 2004.

"Financial Supervision and Crisis Management: U.S. Experience and Lessons for Emerging Market Economies," (with Daniel E. Nolle, Lawrence Goldberg, and Glenn Yago), 2004EWC/KDI Conference, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii ,July 29-30, 2004.

"External Governance and Bank Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis," (with Daniel E. Nolle, Valentina Hartarska, and Ed Phumiwasana), 79^th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, Canada, June 29-July 3, 2004

2003

"Global Trends in Bank Regulatory and Supervisory Environment," Woori Bank Conference on Reforms and Innovations in Banking, Seoul, Korea, November 28, 2003.

"Comments on the Development of Asian Bond Markets," First Annual Asian Bond Market Forum, Hong Kong, China, November 11 -12, 2003.

"Bank Safety and Soundness and the Structure of Bank Supervision: A Cross-Country Analysis," (with Luis G. Dopico, Daniel E. Nolle, James E. Wilcox, Denver), Colorado Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, October 8-11, 2003, http://207.36.165.114/Denver/.

"Reliving the S&L Crisis: Moral Hazard or Organized Crime," Conference on Corporate Governance and Control Fraud, University of Texas, Austin,TX, April 28 - 29, 2003.

"Comparative Banking Supervision and Regulation," (with Daniel E. Nolle) and "Corporate Governance," (with Ed Phumiwasana), Claremont Conference on Global Political Economy Data, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA ,April 11, 2003 .

"A Cross-Country Analysis of the Bank Supervisory Framework and Bank Performance,"( with Daniel E. Nolle, Ed Phumiwasana, Glenn Yago), Midwest Finance Association 52nd Annual Meeting, Adam's Mark Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, March 27-29,2003, http://www.mfa2003.org/.

"On Improving Bank Regulation and Supervision in China," Workshop on China's Financial Sector Legal Framework, Beijing, China, March 24 - 28, 2003.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: Some Issues and International Evidence," Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Ottawa, Canada, February 24, 2003.

"Is Consolidated Financial Regulation Appropriate for the Unite States?" Panel on "Financial Services Agencies in the UK and Japan,” American Enterprise Institute Conference, Washington, D.C., February 21, 2003. http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.237,filter./event_detail.asp

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: Some Issues and International Evidence," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, February 10, 2003.

"A Cross-Country Analysis of the Bank Supervisory Framework and Bank Performance," (with Daniel E. Nolle, Ed Phumiwasana, Glenn Yago), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C., January 15, 2003.

2002

"A Cross-Country Analysis of the Bank Supervisory Framework and Bank Performance," (with Daniel E. Nolle, Ed Phumiwasana, and Glenn Yago), American Bankers Association, Washington, DC, December 11, 2002.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best?" (with Gerald Caprio, Jr. and Ross Levine), Macroeconomic Stability, Financial Markets and Economic Development, Bank of Mexico, Mexico, November 12-13, 2002.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best?" (with Gerald Caprio, Jr. and Ross Levine), Financial Market Development in Latin America, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University, CA, November 8 - 9, 2002.

"A Panel Discussion on the New Plan for Africa’s Development," The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Milken Institute, Santa Monica, CA, October 24, 2002.

"The Changing Structure of Latin American Banking Markets," The European Union and the Americas Conference on Spanish Investment in Latin America, Miami European Center and the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center, Coral Gables, FL, October 18-19, 2002.

"The Great Savings and Loan Problems," (with Susanne Trimbath), Penn Square Bank, 20 Years Later: An Examination into the Causes, Effects, Responses, and Continuing Consequences of the Banking and Deposit Insurance Crisis of the 1980s, Sponsored by Oklahoma City University School of Law, The Oklahoma Bar Review and The Conference on Consumer Finance Law, Oklahoma City, OK, October 3-4, 2002.

"Do Differences in the Structure, Scope and Independence of Bank Supervision in Countries Around the World Matter?" Lecture at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, September 20, 2002.

"Comments on Subprime Lending," Credit Research Center’s Subprime Lending Symposium, Georgetown University, Credit Research Center, Washington, D.C., September 17-18, 2002.

"U.S. Economic Outlook and Demographic Information," Minneapolis, MN, August 15-16, 2002.

Participated in "Emerging Market Countries: Is Globalization Leading to Polarization," Economic Security Group, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C., July 23-24, 2002.

"A Cross-Country Analysis of the Bank Supervisory Framework and Bank Performance," (with Ed Phumiwasana, Daniel Nolle and Glenn Yago), Western Economic Association’s 77th Annual Conference ,Westin Seattle Seattle, WA, July 02, 2002.

"Size, Structure and Regulation of the Financial Sector ," International Symposium on the Transformation and Diversification of the Financial Sector in South Africa , Sponsored by the National Economic Development and Labour Council Johannesburg, South Africa, April 05 - 06, 2002.

"An International Comparison and Assessment of Bank Regulation and Supervision," Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, July 9, 2002.

"Bank Regulation, Capital Markets and Economic Growth," The Division of Banking & Finance Centre for Research in Financial Services, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 21, 2002.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best?" (with Gerald Caprio, Jr., and Ross Levine), Basel II: An Economic Assessment, Bank for International Settlements, May 17-18, 2002.

"International Best Practices in Regulation based on Case Studies of Relevant Experiences from Developed and Emerging Economies," (with Susanne Trimbath), International Conference on Regulation of Financial Intermediaries in Emerging Markets, Mumbai, India, March 21, 2002.

"Finance and Growth," J. Anderson Davis Lecture, The Academy of Economics and Finance 29th Annual Meeting, Pensacola, Florida, February 15, 2002.

2001

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Claremont Graduate University, Economics Department, Claremont, CA, December 5, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, December 10, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Risks of Financial Institutions, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, November 30, 2001. http://www.nber.org/~confer/2001/risk01/program.html

"Bank Safety and Soundness and the Structure of Bank Supervision: A Cross-Country Analysis," (with Luis G. Dopico, Daniel E. Nolle, and James A. Wilcox), FMA Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 20-22, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), The Future of American Banking: Historical, Theoretical, and Empirical Perspectives, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 9-10, 2001. http://www.econ.yale.edu/econhist/banking/banking2.html

"Do Bank Supervisory Structures Differ Across Countries? Does It Matter?" (with Gerard Caprio and Daniel Nolle), Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, Regional Workshop for the Caribbean Banking Supervisors Group on Corporate Governance, E-banking and Supervisory Structures, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, October 30 – November 2, 2001.

"Banking Regulation, Financial Structure, and Economic Performance: Cross Country Evidence," (with Luis G. Dopico, Daniel E. Nolle, and James A. Wilcox), 2001 FMA Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 17-20, 2001. http://www.fma.org/Toronto/TorontoProgram.htm

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 12, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, October 3, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), 12th Conference Financial Economics and Accounting Conference, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 20-21, 2001.

"Finance and Growth: An Overview," (with Ross Levine), University of Nevada , Las Vegas, Nevada, August 31, 2001.

"A Nested Real Option Model for Multi-stage Capital Investment Decisions," (with Hemantha Herath), Asia Pacific Finance Association (APFA) Annual Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 22-25, 2001.

"The Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database,” (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Western Economic Association Meetings, July 7-8, 2001. http://fac.cgu.edu/~zakp/WEA01.htm

"An International Comparison of the Structure and Implementation of Bank Supervision," (with Luis G. Dopico, Daniel E. Nolle and James A. Wilcox), The Future of Financial Regulation in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, July 6-7, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong, China, June 29, 2001.

"Finance and Growth: An Overview," (with Ross Levine), APEC Economic Outlook Symposium, Hong Kong, China, June 28-29, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Reserve Bank of Australia, Australia, June 1, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC., May 17, 2001.

"Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Calson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 9, 2001.

"Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, World Bank, Washington, D.C., May 1, 2001. http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/B-SPAN/abcde/abcde_agenda.htm

"Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 8, 2001.

"Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., February, 23 2001.

"Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Integrating Emerging Market Countries Into Global Financial System, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services, 4th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., January 12, 2001.

"Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World: A New Database," (with Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine), Banco Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile, January 10, 2001.

"Banking Regulation, Financial Structure, and Economic Performance: Cross Country Evidence," (with Daniel E. Nolle and James A. Wilcox, North American Economic and Finance Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 7, 2001.

2000

"Global Financial Consolidation and Integration: Opportunities and Challenges," 19th Annual International Monetary and Trade Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, November 13, 2000.

"Global Financial Consolidation and Integration: Opportunities and Challenges," Los Angeles Chapter, National Association for Business Economics, Los Angeles, California, October 10, 2000.

"Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999," Atlanta Economics Club, Atlanta, Georgia, April 18, 2000.